From: Mechanical ventilation: past lessons and the near future
Unproven experience-based rules regarding ventilation support |
• Modify therapy according to patient size, physiological demand, and tolerance |
• Reduce ventilation intensity as well as demand |
• It is transpulmonary pressure that counts |
• It is functional response that is important |
• Position is an essential tool ... and a hazard |
• Recruiting maneuvers often required to set best positive end-expiratory pressure |